{"id":7089,"date":"2014-05-26T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T01:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2014-05-26T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T01:19:50","slug":"europhobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/05\/26\/europhobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Europhobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/may\/26\/ukip-european-elections-political-earthquake\">Ukip in Britain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/may\/25\/france-national-front-win-european-elections\">Front National<\/a> in France, and a similar array of smiling europhobic racists and neo-fascists in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/may\/25\/france-national-front-win-european-elections\">Denmark, Austria and Hungary<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In most cases (except perhaps the UK, who really just doesn&#8217;t get that whole EU thing): because people just can&#8217;t be arsed enough to cast a serious vote, or cast a vote at all, at EU elections, and would rather &#8220;send a message&#8221; to their respective local governments by voting for the looniest candidate with a populist slant they like. Even if that means fucking up one of the only political entity that can truly make a positive mark on their lives in the coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>Way to go, people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukip in Britain,  Front National in France, and a similar array of smiling europhobic racists and neo-fascists in Denmark, Austria and Hungary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-sigh","category-political-ranting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7092,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions\/7092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}